Selling the city: Language, ethnicity and commodified space

Linguistic Landscape in the City

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 182-198

  Leeman, Jennifer ^a   Modan, Gabriella ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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